Phone number:
Email Address
francesca.lorenzi@dcu.ie
Campus
St Patrick's Campus
Academic biography
Francesca Lorenzi is a lecturer at both
undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her teaching is primarily in the areas of
Intercultural Education, Ethics and Values Education, Philosophy of Education
and Curriculum Implementation ; Assessmentn and Feedback.
She obtained a PhD in Education from the
National University of Ireland, Maynooth with a thesis focusing on the role of
dialogue in assessment and the democratisation of practices in education .Her
current research expertise is in the area of Teaching and Learning with a
specific focus on Assessment and Feedback and Educational Ethics. Since 2005 Francesca
has published a range of articles, books and chapters relating to assessment,
and ethics and distance education. Formerly she was Co-Chair of the BA in
Humanities offered by Oscail the Distance Education Centre at Dublin City
University. During this
time she engaged in research and published on evaluation of distance education
courses. She has presented her research on assessment at several national and
international conferences. Her most recent project focussed on the evaluation
of Fighting Words a creative writing initiative initiated by Irish writer Roddy
Doyle and aimed at cultivating creativity particularly among disadvantaged
school children.
She has served as Research convenor for
the School of Education Studies between 2013-2014.She is currently a member of
Further Education and Training Research Centre (FETRC), of the Centre for Evaluation,
Quality and Inspection (EQI), of the inter-disciplinary project EELF (Ethics
Education through literature and film) and of the Regional Centre of Expertise
in Education for Sustainable Development (RCE Dublin) based in DCU.
Her specific research interests include
but are not limited to dialogue in education, democratic and inclusive
approaches to educational assessment, creativity in education, ethics in the
classroom, values and identity in relation to education for sustainable
development.
Research interests
Philosophy of Education
Assessment design and feedback
Values and Moral Education
Pedagogical Dialogue, Creativity in Education, Democratic approaches to education